is coetzee like conrad?

As we have seen ourselves in Heart of Darkness, Achebe criticized Conrad of being, without a doubt, racist as the man kept on using derogatory terms to describe the people of Africa, describing them as if they were wild, unkempt and, even diseased animals. Through the exploits of the main character (and all other characters) in his story, Conrad has descriptively treated the African people as inhuman savages. Does Coetzee do the same in Waiting for the Barbarians? From what I’ve read so far, I would have to say yes and no simultaneously. Though it is true we find a similar treatment of one group subjugating another, treating another as total dogs, we are not given any detail as to what two groups these are. They’re pretty much two generic social, political, racial or religious classes. And, as has been proven by history, with two different groups occupying the same space, whichever one’s in power will look down upon the other. In Conrad’s text, he, whether intentionally or not, makes it clear that he is a part of the “superior” race deriding the other “less superior” one. His character seems to be an extension of himself. Coetzee, on the other hand, seems to want to expose such ugly prejudice to the light. He to uses a lot of negative, insulting terms in his description of the poor fisher-people but it’s not in the same tone as Conrad. It’s more like he’s building up from such bigoted feelings in a way to understand why they are present in the first place.